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13 August 1804 Procedure False
13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

Nor yet is the legislator the only person to whom the name of moral obligation, or what here comes to the same thing the sense of general /public/ interest will in proportion as it is understood and attended to, ----- to regard the sinister interest with a jealous eye. To the lot of individuals - to each in proportion to the opportunities that fall within his reach within the sphere within /in/ which it happens to move, it may fall to /may find themselves called upon/ to take their parts in watching the ------ and counteracting the designs of the common adversary.
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  • Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]
    Description: 13 August 1804

    Procedure

    False ends

    Nugatory, if considered either with a view to any influence to be excused by them in the agent himself, these expressions may be rational and useful if employed in the view of constraining the conduct of other agents, by whose influence the conduct of the agent in question may be /is liable to be/ //in a way// influenced. The interest of this or that body of men is adverse in certain points to that /the general interest/ of the community - What is the effect upon him to be made of the terms ought or /and/ ought not? It ought (shall we say) to further that sinister interest? To speak this would be to say what is but ever false and nugatory: it /that/ ought not? - For this ---- not false indeed but as nugatory as before. To what conduct then can the term /---- --------/ be applied with any fruit or useful meaning? To what but to that of the legislator - of the legislator we may say that it ought to be his care on all occasions to prevent /keep/ the ---------- adverse interest in so far as it is adverse, from the attainment of its end: to protect from the hostility of these its /their/ natural enemies the interests ----- /of the whole/ to her charge (for such part is to the extent of its separate and opposite interest, a natural enemy, as in all other respects it is a natural ally of the whole). Thus he ought to do: and thus he will do, in proportion as he cares /regards/ for, and understands, and is attentive to and ------- on behalf of the interests or on any other --- subject ------ to his charge. This he will do, and to enable himself so to do, he will on all such occasions be attentive to the operation of the partial and sinister interest, alike to its operations, jealous of its ----- /designs/. On no occasion will he give the reins to it: on no occasion will he omit to apply to it such curbs to it, as are /shall appear/ consistent with that ---- of motive which may be necessary to it, to enable it to carry on its appropriate operations in the direction leading to the common good.
  • Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]
    Description: 13 August 1804

    Procedure

    False ends

    Profit /-------/, consideration and care. If the last /-------/ in these several ------ /grounds/ ----- the greater to the visitor then the profit /acquisition/ //gain// ///------/// to the man of law, the arrangement would be would be no ------: an equal lover of mankind would see no reason to frame as much as a wish to alter it. If setting individual against individual, the suitor from one portion of the community, the less a person is formed by the lawyer. But in each of these several points the ------ on -- -- will be found prodigious /deliberately great/ //vast// in proportion to the benefit on the other.
  • Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]
    Description: 13 August 1804

    Procedure

    False ends

    Of men in general in a ----- /another/ sense it is not true that every man on every occasion is and will be governed by his own interest: if it were true, on the one hand there would be no such quality as imprudence: on the other hand there would be no such quality as generosity, no such emotion as sympathy - no such emotion even as antipathy /not even as antipathy/.